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Lawrence Kasdan - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

Lawrence Kasdan - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Writer, Producer, Director, Actor.

Born January 14, 1949, Miami, Florida, USA - American screenwriter, producer, director, and actor.

He spent his childhood in West Virginia, where he graduated from high school in 1966. Then he studied at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated with a master's degree in education and initially planned a career as an English teacher, but did not find a job in his specialty and worked as an advertising copywriter for 5 years.

Kasdan got into the movie business in the mid-70s when he sold the script for the film The Bodyguard to Warner Bros., originally starring Diana Ross and Steve McQueen, but the film was in the so-called. development hell and finally came out in 1992 with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner in the lead roles. In 1978, George Lucas invited Kasdan to write the script for Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, as well as finalize his own script (which Lucas was forced to write after the death of original screenwriter Lee Brackett) for Episode 5 of Star Wars.

As a director, Kasdan made his film debut in 1981 with the erotic thriller Body Heat. Then he was a director and screenwriter for the films: "Big Disappointment" (1983), "Reluctant Tourist" (1988) and "Grand Canyon" (1991), for these films he was nominated for an "Oscar" as the best screenwriter, and the film "Grand Canyon "Received the" Golden Bear "- the highest award at the Berlin International Film Festival.


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